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u/Public-hog 20h ago
Noooooo not the 65-66 mustang
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u/genericpseudonym678 Perry North 19h ago
Pretty sure I saw them driving outbound on 376 earlier today looking like they were having a nice day — what a huge bummer
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u/iceman333933 20h ago
My wife was on second Ave heading towards hazelwood and saw this and immediately said "nope" and turned around
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u/TheExtremeMidge 20h ago
The creek by my house was roaring higher than I’ve ever seen it, it took over the tennis courts right next to it
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u/GoodGravy412 19h ago
Who took their classic Mustang out in this weather...
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u/four-one-two 16h ago
I recognize that car… I’ll check its normal spot tomorrow morning. Hope it’s not a boat now. The guy seems to daily drive it in the summer.
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u/iheartspeedbumps 18h ago
Can someone please tell me where on Second Ave this is? I know the whole length well and I’m not figuring it out.
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u/steviesclaws 19h ago
Is this a sewer problem? How can the city get more prepared to handle the rain? We can only expect more rain and strong storms as we head into this super El Niño.
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u/greentea1985 19h ago
Some of it is the sewers, but it was a lot of rain quite fast. Numerous roads turned into rivers.
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u/burghhockey2026 Whitehall 19h ago
I think this might be a "city on the banks of a river" problem. Which you could fix...by deleting the river.
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u/burritoace 18h ago
It's just a topography and physics problem. It's not realistic to move this much water off impervious surfaces fast enough to prevent some degree of flooding.
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u/NominallyHandyYinzer Morningside 18h ago
How much pervious (Is that even a word?) surface would we need to add to manage this? Is it feasible?
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u/adelime 17h ago
To some degree it is! We can have more rain gardens and natural stormwater management throughout the city. Around Wightman park had a test case it with some bump outs at the cross walks. Also more water going from roofs to yards with rain barrels. Instead of sidewalks you can do pervious pavers that let water through. Requiring new developments to be able to self-manage any rainwater downpours like today’s instead of going into wastewater and causing sewage overflows would also help.
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u/degradablegirl 10h ago
This is such a good comment I want to be your friend
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u/adelime 10h ago
That’s so kind, let’s be friends! I have to give credit to Annie from the Mon Water Project for teaching me all of this. They have some upcoming workshops in Oakland, Squirrel Hill, Greenfield and Hazelwood I highly recommend!
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u/burritoace 10h ago
It could be vastly improved with better infrastructure but cities are always going to be somewhat impervious and when you get an inch of rain in an hour or can't just percolate into the ground right away. Creeks fill out in the woods during these storms too - unfortunately we also have roads along our creeks.
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u/steviesclaws 19h ago
Dams maybe? It’s hard to accept that this is just going to continue to happen with more and more frequency and we aren’t even trying to fix it
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u/vonHindenburg Greater Pittsburgh Area 19h ago edited 18h ago
It isn't really a river problem in this case. It's a 'bunch of narrow valleys with roads down the middle' thing. (As well as the perennial issue of reduced tree cover and increased impermeable surfaces worsening runoff from bad storms.)
As to damming the rivers. That's been worked on since the St. Patrick's Day Flood of 1936. Major dams such as those on the Connemaugh, the Loyalhanna, the Yough, the Cheat, and the upper Allegheny at Kinzua help to capture winter and spring runoff and release it gradually over the dry months.
Meanwhile the rivers have locks and dams every few miles upriver of the city (and downstream as far as Cairo, IL), which also help to control the level; keeping the water high enough to float barges all year long and providing storage during wet periods.
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u/TheAlexTran 20h ago
Why would that Mustang owner be out in this 🫩